Our Facilities

The Chemistry Department occupies 35,000 square feet on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Mendel Hall at Villanova University. The Department has suites of instructional laboratories, each designed for a different subdiscipline of chemistry with specialized instrumentation and facilities. In particular, Chemistry majors are taught in their own specialized laboratory space complete with modern instrumentation, promoting faculty-student interactions and personalized instruction.

Mendel Hall was expanded and completely renovated in 1998. The building is completely WiFi enabled, and all classrooms include Power Point projectors and complete audio/visual facilities.

Instrumentation

Descriptions of available Departmental instrumentation can be found by following the links on the left. Recent large acquisitions include a Bruker Kappa x-ray diffractometer and two Applied Biosystems triple quadrupole mass spectrometers, purchased with funding from the Major Research Instrumentation Program of the National Science Foundation.

About Villanova

Villanova University was founded in 1842 by the Order of St. Augustine. To this day, Villanova’s Augustinian Catholic intellectual tradition is the cornerstone of an academic community in which students learn to think critically, act compassionately and succeed while serving others. There are more than 10,000 undergraduate, graduate and law students in the University’s six colleges.